I also have a python-based ImageWriter emulator that can export PNGs or TIFFs (for proper CMYK prints). This year I'm trying to synthesize the sounds of printing based individual impacts. I'll rig it up as a shared ImageWriter on GlobalTalk and maybe have a web page to view/hear the results.
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DS was very useful back in the day. I miss it. "Modern" MDM management can't match the consistency and repeatability, and is much more hassle some times.
I was going to mention the same thing. I had a demo lab of Mac minis that I would let people access to test out data center access and performance. I would use DeployStudio to wipe and rebuild them after each session.
Hi folks! After three years of effort (I'm new at this and my work has also been VERY busy) I'm thrilled to unveil my mutant restoration project, and my first making-of video, the PowerMac Blue and White G4. This has been a lot of effort and an intense labour of love, so I hope you all enjoy!
I've been working on a couple of open source projects that this community might be interested in.
USBODE-circle - is a USB CD-ROM drive emulator. Finalized Macintosh 9.2.2 support earlier this year. There are a few CD Audio games that are incompatible, but many work fine after disabling your internal CDROM drive (full information via the repository README.md) via a patched AppleCD/DVD Extension. This should also work with OS/X and works on modern versions of MacOS including Tahoe.
My Marchintosh project is something different though.
I've been working on this for a couple of months and believe it's time for some attention onto it.
I am creating a multi-platform, multi-filesystem imaging solution. I look at this as like a 1-stop tool to handle all of your vintage filesystem needs.
There are a lot of features and not everything is thoroughly tested. The application is written in Rust.
The application is called Rusty Backup
Full disclosure, it's all AI (claude) generated but I have a strong understanding of many filesystems since I have worked as a systems engineer for most of my career and have been providing fine-tune direction for all of the code. It's also GPL3 licensed so feel free to contribute back to me for new features!
Operating Systems Supported:
I am currently working on adding 'edit' support for both images/backups and live filesystems so I hope to have a way to write files to an HFS partition within my application hopefully for Marchintosh!
Unfortunatley I haven't created thorough documentation yet, but it appears to be very straightforward to use. For issues please open up Github issues.
USBODE-circle - is a USB CD-ROM drive emulator. Finalized Macintosh 9.2.2 support earlier this year. There are a few CD Audio games that are incompatible, but many work fine after disabling your internal CDROM drive (full information via the repository README.md) via a patched AppleCD/DVD Extension. This should also work with OS/X and works on modern versions of MacOS including Tahoe.
My Marchintosh project is something different though.
I've been working on this for a couple of months and believe it's time for some attention onto it.
I am creating a multi-platform, multi-filesystem imaging solution. I look at this as like a 1-stop tool to handle all of your vintage filesystem needs.
There are a lot of features and not everything is thoroughly tested. The application is written in Rust.
The application is called Rusty Backup
Full disclosure, it's all AI (claude) generated but I have a strong understanding of many filesystems since I have worked as a systems engineer for most of my career and have been providing fine-tune direction for all of the code. It's also GPL3 licensed so feel free to contribute back to me for new features!
Operating Systems Supported:
- Windows 10/11 x86/x64
- MacOS Sequia & Tahoe (15.x, 26.x) might support lower versions, but I'm not sure what the lowest is. x64 (Intel) and ARM64 (Macintosh Silicon) builds are provided.
- I recently signed up for an Apple developer account so this is a signed developer application
- Modern Linux versions
- Currently providing native packages for Debian (tested), Fedora and Arch, x64 and arm based binaries
- FAT12/16/32
- NTFS
- ExFAT
- ext2/3/4
- btrfs (my personal favorite to use on modern linux distros)* experimental support, doesn't support all resizing operations yet
- HFS
- HFSPlus
- ProDOS 3.3 *needs more testing, recently implemented
- Backup / clone from floppy disk/jaz/zip drive with supported filesystem (including HFS on latest MacOS) to img file
- Write .img file to floppy disk (currently untested)
- Backup from hard disk with supported filesystem & perform compaction on destination file
- Restore from hard disk with supported filesystem & allow partition manipulation (resize partition
- Convert from / to VHD files for supported filesystems
- Current VHD limitations around extended partition handling
- Re-export VHD files to re-size them
- Restore from Clonezilla backup, allowing for filesystem resizing (needs more testing)
- Browse/Inspect existing backups including filesystem browser and simple text editor loading,
- Export Files from backups and/or physical drives directly (especially useful for cross-platform and unsupported filesystems like HFS)
- Options to export resource forks for HFS/HFS+ filesystems as different filetypes
- Create bin/cue/ISO files for physical disks
I am currently working on adding 'edit' support for both images/backups and live filesystems so I hope to have a way to write files to an HFS partition within my application hopefully for Marchintosh!
Unfortunatley I haven't created thorough documentation yet, but it appears to be very straightforward to use. For issues please open up Github issues.